South Wight | |
Hq: | Newport |
Status: | non-metropolitan district, borough |
Start: | 1974 |
End: | 1995 |
Replace: | Isle of Wight |
Map: | Isle of Wight South Wight district map 1974.svg |
Populationfirst: | 44,890 |
Populationfirstyear: | 1973[1] |
Areafirst: | 65185acres[2] |
Areafirstyear: | 1974 |
Populationlast: | 53,600 |
Populationlastyear: | 1992[3] |
South Wight was a non-metropolitan district with the status of a borough on the Isle of Wight in England from 1974 to 1995.
The district was formed by the Local Government Act 1972, and was a merger of Sandown-Shanklin and Ventnor urban districts and Isle of Wight Rural District. It was one of two districts on the island formed in 1974 – the other was Medina.
Following a review by the Local Government Commission for England, the borough was abolished on 1 April 1995, when a single Isle of Wight Council replaced the island's county council and two district councils.[4]